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By R "Ray" Wang on February 9, 2012
Catch my colleague Yvette Cameron’s point of view here when published. She covers Future of Work for Constellation Research, Inc. Oracle Plays Catch Up With Public Cloud Ambitions On February 9th, Oracle announced its intention to acquire Dublin, CA based Taleo for $1.9B. Taleo is a cloud based talent management software provider with 5000 customers [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 18, 2012
Big Data, Cloud Based Performance Apps, Drive Interest In Additional Investment Redwood City, California based Tidemark announced that it raised $24 M in Series C funding from Redpoint Ventures, Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and Dave Duffield. Key points include: Redpoint Ventures leads the round and Geoff Yang joins the board. To date Tidemark has raised [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 16, 2012
Public Outrage Grows Over Lax Privacy Polices At Popular Social Networking Sites Recent actions by social networking leaders in the market place have brought new attention to a user’s privacy rights. Despite the fact that these sites provide a freemium service to users, abuse and arrogance of a user’s privacy rights combined with user ignorance [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged B2B, B2B E-commerce, B2C, B2C E-commerce, best practices, Big Data, bill of rights, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Sales Officer, CHRO, CIO, collaboration software, Constellation Research, COO, customer bill of rights, Digital identity, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, early adopters, Electronic Privacy, Emerging Technologies, Engagement Apps, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, EU, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, future of work, google, GooglePlus, Identity management, linkedin, Matrix Commerce, Monday's Musings, Next Gen Customer, Privacy, Privacy Rights, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, social business, Social Business Software, social business strategist, social campaign tracking, social commerce, Social CRM, social customer insights, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, social event management, social marketing insights, Social Media, social media monitoring, social sales insights, social service, social support, social support insights, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 10, 2012
Business Leaders Often Poorly Prepared For Cloud/SaaS Contract Negotiations Business leaders often take great care in building their Cloud and SaaS strategy, only to have many of the benefits of flexibility and agility hampered by overlooking details in their cloud contracts. In conversations with over 200 cloud customers in 2011, key reasons include: A [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 5, 2012
New Funding Shows Strength In Social Business Market And Lithium’s Business Model Emeryville, California based Lithum Technologies announced today that it raised $53.4M in financing. The lead round is from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Other investors include SAP Ventures. NEA leads the round with Peter Sonsini joining the board. Peter‘s been active with ecommerce play [...]
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By Naomi Bloom on January 4, 2012
Monet — Field of Flowers and Windmills near Leiden In my last post, I provided a minimum definition of true SaaS and described the potential benefits for both vendors and customers who adhere to this now well-established concept in enterprise software. But the potential benefits are only realized as vendors move from delivering the basics of [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged enterprise software, Models/Modeling, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, SaaS, talent management |
By Naomi Bloom on December 27, 2011
Why Buy The Cow? When I was barely into my teens, my mother’s (every mother’s of that era) version of the sex talk was captured in this expression: “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?” This was long before birth control pills were invented, years before the “Summer of Love,” and [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Debunking/Calling Out, enterprise software, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, SaaS, Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking |
By Naomi Bloom on December 8, 2011
What Happened To The Rest Of My Pie? I’m still working on my magnum opus (perhaps never to be finished?) post on the SAP/SFSF/Jobs2Web/all things consolidation in the HRM enterprise software market, but one question keeps pushing its way to the surface, demanding a quick post. It’s a much broader question: what just happened to the [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged enterprise software, HRM Software, M&A/PE/Ownership Changes, Market Segmentation, oracle, sap, SAPSFSF, SuccesFactors, talent management, workday |
By Sig Rinde on December 7, 2011
Go back to your student days and try to remember your best textbooks… They always started out with the basics, then went deeper and deeper. Each chapter led you stepwise through a concept, using examples, painting a picture then rounding off with some exercises before moving on to the next chapter. They were not half [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged enterprise software, ui, user interface, Waldo, Web/Tech |
By Naomi Bloom on December 5, 2011
Shall We Leverage Your Code Or Mine? I’m working on a mega-post about the SAP/SuccessFactors deal, but in the meantime I could use your help in making sure I’ve got the full list of HRM-related codebases that must be addressed — strategically and tactically — as a part of this deal. Much of this post [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business ByDesign, enterprise software, HRM Software, Plateau, SaaS, sap, SAPSFSF, SFSF, SuccessFactor |
